Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, sentence 6
A long time passed, and people said to each other--“I wonder if there is a church out in the wood?
Who acts: long time, people, church · What happens: pass, say, wonder, be out · To what, where: each, wood · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (long time, people, church), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 time | amod |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 passed | nsubj |
| 4 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 passed | conj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 each | case |
| 10 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 8 said | obl |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 each | fixed |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 wonder | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 wonder | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 wonder | nsubj |
| 15 | wonder | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 is | mark |
| 17 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 is | expl |
| 18 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 wonder | ccomp |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 church | det |
| 20 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 is | nsubj |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 is | compound:prt |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 wood | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 wood | det |
| 24 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 is | obl |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | participle | a long time | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | people | each | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to each=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | wonder speech: ask in a quote | present | people | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | be out a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | a church | the wood; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Location |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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